Improvement in corsets



M. P. BRAY.

CORSETS.A

Patented May 1. 1877.

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f Orne MORRIS P. BRAY, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSE-TS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,274, dated May 1,1877; applicationiiled March 17,l um.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, ofBirmingham, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection With the accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecication, and represent, in-

Figure l, a front view, Fig. 2, a rear view; Fig. 3, a front view withthe steels removed; Fig. 4, a transverse section on line x.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of attachingsteels or clasps to corsets, the object being to afford an easy methodof introducing and removing, and, at

the same time, add an auxiliary steel, if desired.

The invention consists in providing the meeting edges of the corsetswith a short pocket at each end to receive the ends ot' the principal,and, if an auxiliary steel, intermediate pockets to secure that steeltransversely, and with a loose or removable flap or iiaps to sustain theprincipal steel at the center.

A represents one edge of the corset, which is constructed with a pocket,B, at the top, and a similar pocket, C, at the bottom, ot'sut'- licientwidth to receive the ends ot' both the principal steel D and auxiliarysteel E. 'These pockets are only of sufficient length to securely retainthe ends of the steels in their position-say, so as to extend to nearthe first clasp-eye. At the center a short Hap, Gr, is attached to theedge, and sufficient in width to extend around the two steels andoverlap the body of the corset upon the back side, as seen in Fig. 4,and both the body of the corset and the Hap provided with correspondingeyelets a., or other fastening, to secure the principal steel, in itsplace, and prevents its movement transversely on the surface of theprincipal steel. The end pockets B and C and the central ilap G take thestrain of the respective clasps, and the intermediate strain upon thecorset, which is slight, is brought upon the intermediate pockets L.

Thus constructed, when the llap is open, the steels may be introduced,first one end and then the other, and so removed, Withoutripping oropening` the pockets; and when the ap Gr is secured around the steels,they are as tirinly held as if in a continuous pocket, and the wear,which is unavoidable where the claspeyes project through apertures inthe corset, is entirely avoided.

In case the auxiliary steel be not used, then a flap will be introducedin place of each of the said pockets, substantially like tbe centralflap, and so arranged that the hooks and eyes will come between theiiaps, and thus avoid the perforation of the fabric for the hooks oreyes.

I am aware that corset-steels have beensecured by lacing a ap over thesteel. fore do not claim the method of securing the aps shown anddescribed.

I claim- The combination, in a corset, of the end pockets B C, one ormore aps, G, and with the intermediate pockets L, substantially asdescribed.

MORRIS P. BRAY. .Witnesses: 1

LEOPOLD KRAUS, SIDNEY A. Downs.

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